Paska rebuts the 400-plus year-old bible as centrepiece

The P-N-G Trade Union Congress says, plans by the Parliament Speaker to make a 400-year-old Bible, a centre piece in Parliament, are not in the best interest of the nation.

An estimated crowd of 20-thousand were at the Port Moresby Jackson's international airport yesterday to greet the Bible, which was brought back to Papua New Guinea by Speaker Theodore Zurenouc.

Since taking the post, the Speaker has removed traditional artifacts from display in Parliament, calling them symbols of idolatry.

P-N-G Trade Union Congress General-Secretary John Paska has told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat, he doesn't agree with the Speaker's plans to promote Christianity.

"We'll, I don't, I don't think Papua New Guinea is fully Christianised anyway.

"I mean, we have all kinds of religion, the fact that, we have a constitution that guarantees for all all kinds of religions".

Meantime, Speaker Zurenuoc has criticized the media and factions of the community, for spreading disunity in P-N-G through their reporting.

"Unfortunately it is a sad and degrading reality that certain institutions in the media for eternity for our nation seem to be either ignorant or deliberately promoting negative ideas.

"I am of the view, that many a time, there is a deliberated intention to misinform the masses simply for the sake of their own economic conveniences"